When two hundred sources get pressed into one clean story, the sources stop being evidence. A finished answer looks like progress. The trail that could overturn it is what you actually …
Historical Knowledge Fabric
OCR makes historical pages readable. It does not make historical knowledge trustworthy. The hard problem begins after extraction. An AI-assisted knowledge system has to preserve what a source says, …
The COBOL Problem
Databases hold information. They do not pass it on. The institution still has a working store. The people who could explain what the records mean are leaving, or already gone. What sits in the …


